Centre for Advanced International Studies (CAIS) guest lecture: Dr Philip Cunliffe, University of Kent
Legions of Peace: A New Research Agenda for Theorising Contribution to Peacekeeping?
Dr Philip Cunliffe's doctoral research, which was funded by the ESRC, examined developing countries personnel contribution to United Nations peacekeeping across 1997-2007. His third book Legions of Peace: UN Peacekeepers from the Global South,which is based on his doctoral research, is published in November 2013.
| A Department of Politics lecture | |
|---|---|
| Date | 17 February 2014 |
| Time | 14:00 to 16:00 |
| Place | Building One One Bateman Lecture theatre |
| Provider | Department of Politics |
Event details
Dr Philip Cunliffe's current research involves two streams: one examines the changing dynamics of humanitarian intervention since the end of the Cold War through to today's debates over intervening in the Syrian civil war. This research will be published as a monograph by Bloomsbury. The second stream, entitled The Globalisation of Wilsonian Militarism examines the links between developing countries role in post-Cold War peacekeeping and traditions of liberal militarism, liberal intervention, imperial internationalism and military rule.
He is working on several papers and collaborative projects connected with this project. These papers variously analyse the behaviour of peacekeeping states and attempts to theorise peacekeeping contribution. Philip is also working on two side projects, one examining the relevance of the inter-war history of the Comintern for post-war international politics and theories of international organisation, and a collaborative project examining the relevance of Marxist theories of ‘primitive accumulation’ for understanding the dynamics of contemporary violence.
Location:
Building One
